Mosaic Noir #236

The Verdict (1982)

The Thief (1952)

Vertigo

Criss Cross

Angel Heart

The Driver

LA Confidential

Rope

Touch of Evil

Ruby

Lost Weekend

A Most Violent Year

Ashes and Diamonds

Farewell My Lovely

Bad Time

Original 1947 short story from The American magazine on which Bad Day at Black Rock was based.

Scott Frank

Heaven's Prisoners

Get Shorty (1995)

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Malice

Dead End for Delia - Fallen Angels

The Lookout

Dead Again

Hoke

The Individual

Face the Fact

     
        " I don't blame myself. You see, Mr Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of anything. "

Noah Cross -
Chinatown
1974

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Sunday Dog Parade

Pool of Black

   A kiss before dying, the desperate lurch before oblivion, and the erotic click-clack of stilettos on pavement. Dank stairwells and silent corridors. Closed doors and hidden secrets. You break in and fall into a bottomless pool of black. Cut to a bare light-bulb burning on a current wired from hell. Lying on a steel-framed bed you stare through the bars of perdition at yourself, a wraith in a cracked mirror on the ceiling.

Tony D'Ambra
Noir City Blues
2009

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #162

The Beast Must Die

Comfort of Strangers

Dead of Night

Bad Day at Black Rock

Edge of Doom

Body Heat

I Want to Live

Hard Times

The Thief (1952)

The Verdict (1982)

The Set Up

Public Eye

The Prowler

Mikey and Nicky

Phenix City Story

Nightmare Alley

Rumblefish

Mob City

Odd Man Out

Naked Lunch

Lady from Shanghai

Chinatown